Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale in 1921, however, James Rowland Angell was, as in a measure he still remains, an unknown indeed. Faculty scientists heard that he had been a psychologist, pupil of John Dewey at Michigan, student of William James and Josiah Royce at Harvard, one of the first of the bright young men who went to Germany to explore what was, at the century's turn, an exciting new field of learning. Administrative officers of the University knew that President-elect Angell had long since given up pure scholarship to become faculty dean and acting president of the University of Chicago...
Sturdy, broad-shouldered Carl Milles is 60, was once a pupil of Rodin, is one of the world's most respected artists. Noted for his unerring sense of design, especially impressive in his many famed fountains, Sculptor Milles was dismayed when the Rockefeller Center management rejected his plans for an Adam & Eve fountain in Manhattan's Radio City, filed a $15,000 suit for his time & trouble...
...demands more than knowledge of "methods". No teacher, however scholarly or however skillful, nor with whatever "personality", is capable of taking part in reorganizing a curriculum, determining general administrative policies in a school or school system, measuring the results of instruction with modern scientific instruments, or guiding an individual pupil, unless he has studied the problems involved in these undertakings. That is the basic reasons why the college graduate had better not go directly into teaching. He is not prepared to take his proper part in anything the school has to do as a school: he may get on well...
...Iowa Hill, Calif., because Wilbur Randall planned to put a frisky frog under the school bell, then twisted the arm of a younger pupil who threatened to tattle, Teacher Leona George, 63, marched down the aisle, separated her quarreling charges. From a brief scuffle Wilbur Randall emerged with both his eyes blacked. Afterward he told his mother, a school trustee, that Teacher George had struck him with the bell. Teacher George was haled before the district attorney and the county superintendent of schools. She insisted that Wilbur's wound was accidental, but grimly admitted to having once whipped...
...lack of sufficient white teachers the use of the English language is very limited and is nothing like what it should be after 35 years of American occupation. . . . Money expended per year, per pupil, $9.42. . . . The agricultural school . . . has not proven successful, the Samoan boys disliking hard work of farm life without pay, and remaining but a short time. . . . The experiment, therefore, has been abandoned. . . . Similarly a saw mill provided by the Department of Agriculture has not been a success, not a single board being sawn to order of the natives. . . . As it was rapidly deteriorating and becoming nonusable...